After alarm, astronauts complete spacewalk
NASA astronauts at the International Space Station on Saturday completed a spacewalk that had been delayed after a false alarm woke the crews of the station and the visiting space shuttle Atlantis.
Atlantis crew members Michael Foreman and Randy Bresnik installed communications antennas and set cargo attachment mechanisms to the station's truss during their excursion, which lasted a little over six hours.
Earlier they had halted a body-conditioning sleepover in a low-pressure chamber on the station after a false depressurization alarm shut down ventilation fans.
The problem, which interrupted the sleep of crews on the station and the shuttle Atlantis for a second consecutive night, appeared to stem from a new Russian docking module that arrived at the station on Nov. 12.
Earlier they had halted a body-conditioning sleepover in a low-pressure chamber on the station after a false depressurization alarm shut down ventilation fans.
The problem, which interrupted the sleep of crews on the station and the shuttle Atlantis for a second consecutive night, appeared to stem from a new Russian docking module that arrived at the station on Nov. 12.
Foreman and Bresnik were sleeping inside the station's Quest airlock when alarms indicated a rapid depressurization of the station..morehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/21/AR2009112102136.html?hpid=sec-politics
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